Rushdie comdemns fanatics

by Feòrag

Salman Rushdie has spoken out against terrorism, with particular reference to Islamic extremists, but has also noted that the US hasn't done much to convince them that they are less evil than fanatics. Rushdie said that he has been listening out for something else: the emergence of a genuine Muslim polemic against the harm terrorists are doing to their 'own people' and that the war against terror will only be won

when Muslims around the world begin to believe that fanaticism is a greater evil than that which they believe the US to embody--an evil, moreover, more dangerous to Muslims, more socially, economically and politically destructive, and possessed by the nightmare vision of the Talibanization of the planet

Fanaticism is evil: Rushdie - The Times of India, June 28th 2002.